Fort Valley is a small town where college students really create the town feel and character. So many small towns have lost population over the last 20-30 years that having the local college presence in the Fort Valley area, with all of the energy of the students filling area dorms and apartments each fall, really helps Fort Valley maintain a good economy.
Being a small city, Fort Valley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Fort Valley is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.30% of adults 25 and older in Fort Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fort Valley in 2022 was $23,406, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,624 for a family of four. However, Fort Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fort Valley also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.65% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Fort Valley is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fort Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Valley residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fort Valley include Irish, English, African, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Fort Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
